Masterpiece MP-32 Optimus Primal

The Mightron dilemma

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So for those who don’t know, back in the day we had a Takara Masterpiece Megatron and… he wasn’t good. Reportedly designed on a super-tight deadline, the bot mode was fugly (which at least was authentic to the toy) and the transformation was insufferable.

And that’s it

I’ve always told myself that when my time came I would hate to be the sort who writes one of those fuck-awful self-congratulatory farewell posts that so many seem to thrive on. But I’m off, and here I am, glorying in the indulgence regardless.

My last hot take for MCV

Not sure if I’ll ever get to write a post like this for MCV again. One week to go!

Nintendo Switch: The Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
Ben Parfitt 21/10/16

There is nothing in this industry that stimulates as many opinionated hot takes as Nintendo.

More CRPS journalisming from wifey

A real cracker, this one. Libby has looked into what appear to be surprisingly legitimate claims of an actual cure for CRPS. She worked super hard on this, which is all the more praiseworthy considering how obviously emotive the subject is for her. I’m so proud x

Is this the cure for CRPS? – Elizabeth Parfitt, October 17th 2016

REVIEW: KO MP-10 Eva Optimus Prime

One Masterpiece to rule them all. You may choose to argue that MP-10 is not the greatest masterpiece ever made because you’re young and you’re cool and you’re a hipster and an individual and rise about the ‘sheeple’. But you’re also wrong. MP-10 is, as they say down our way, ‘the bollocks’.

OK, I concede that you at least maintain the right not to adore MP-10 above all others, but I’m happy to go with the crowd on this one. He’s a magnificent figure, with two virtually perfect and kibble free modes that sport a gorgeous anime look. There are complaints to be made, such as the vehicle rear still looking a bit leggy. Some cite the figure’s ‘gorilla’ arms (which I’ll take any day over the added kibble introduced by the Shadow Fisher add-on). And some specimens might be troubled by loose ankles or smokestacks. But, really, to criticise MP-10 is prove yourself impossible to please. This is as good as it gets.

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KO MP-10 Eva

My wife’s stealing my freelance thunder

So wifey has gone and got herself a writing job. She’s going to be penning columns relating to various issues associated with suffering from and living with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), a condition she developed in 2011.

The piece is made by the photo, though. Whoever took that must have been a photographic wizard, right? RIGHT?

CRPS and Me – Elizabeth Parfitt, October 10th 2016

And you thought No Man’s Sky didn’t deliver?

When I was a wee nipper I loved the Turtles. The Hero Turtles, that is. Ninjas were deemed inappropriate by British censors back then, so what we now know as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were in my time called the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. They edited out all of the nunchuck bits, too. They even cut those out of the film. I once even bought an unedited version of Game of Death from an under-the-table seller at a Bruce Lee convention in Bradford just to see the nunchuck scene. Technically speaking this was breaking the law, so I shan’t admit to it if you ask me.

One of my favourite Turtles things was the arcade game. They had one down at the bowling alley in Basingstoke and I must have pumped literally dozens of my parents’ monies (20p a go, was it?) into it with my mates. So when I saw a picture of a handheld Turtles game in the Argos catalogue I just knew I NEEDED to own this portable version of the arcade game.